UniSa STEM

Dec 8, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Alice Dunbar |Barbara Drigo |UniSa STEM |Steven P. Djordjevic

I. INTRODUCTION The microbiota of an individual's gastrointestinal tract, comprising microbes, their genes, and their functional traits, is fundamental to host digestion (McWhorter, Caviedes-Vidal & Karasov, 2009), detoxification (Kohl et al., 2016), development (Parfrey, Moreau & Russell, 2018), immune function (Broom & Kogut, 2018), protection from pathogenic bacteria (Roggenbuck et al., 2014; Mendoza et al., 2017), and cognitive performance (Davidson, Raulo & Knowles, 2020a).